Yes, but not in the *body* of the message (so, your quoted message below shows the unobfuscated address for Brian Dessent, as well as for the Cygwin list). Furthermore, the archives at <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/> aren't the only archives of this mailing list, and different archives have different address munging policies. IOW, if you want to be spam-free, don't use an important address for posting on a public forum, or use a SPAM-killing tool. Igor
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > The archives already show email addresses slightly obfuscated by > replacing the '@' with 'at' and the '.' with 'dot' and adding spaces. > > -Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum > > Todd Bowden wrote: > > > > Just received an email from an email address that only could of received > > my address from this user list. > > > > My address was only created a couple weeks ago for the sole purpose of > > emailing this user-list. Might there be a way to > > hide peoples email addresses and just use their alias names instead of > > publishing them on the user list thread? > > Uh, it's called a public mailing list. You should never be surprised to > receive spam on an email address you use to post to a ML, that's just > how the world works. Use a throwaway account if it bothers you. I also > suggest SpamAssassin. > > Brian -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
